JK Anowe, a Nigerian-born poet, holds a BA in French from the University of Benin, Nigeria, where he was awarded the Festus Iyayi Merit Award for Poetry in 2015. He is Associate Poetry Editor at Praxis Magazine Online. He lives, teaches, and writes from somewhere in Nigeria. Following his win of the inaugural Brittle Paper […]
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Photos | Pages & Palette Hosts Reading of Frankie Edozien’s Lives of Great Men in Abuja
Last December, Abuja bookstore Pages & Palette hosted a reading of Chike Frankie Edozien’s memoir Lives of Great Men. Published in the US by Team Angelica, in South Africa by Jacana Media, and in Nigeria by Ouida Books, Lives of Great Men is the first memoir by a Nigerian about LGBTQ+ life. It received the […]
Mauritanian Blogger Mohamed Mkhaïtir Has Now Been in Jail for 5 Years
In December 2013, Mauritanian blogger Mohamed Mkhaïtir wrote a blogpost criticizing his country’s government for using religion to discriminate against minorities. On 5 January 2014, he was arrested and, with no lawyer, charged with “apostasy and insulting the prophet,” and sentenced to death—a decision that was subsequently reversed. He has now been in jail for five […]
Read Chapter One of Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities
Chigozie Obioma’s second novel An Orchestra of Minorities was published this January. As part of The Summer Library’s “selected extracts from the best new books this summer,” The Monthly has provided a part of the first chapter of the novel. The chosen section is titled “The Woman on the Bridge.” _________________________________________________________________________ The Woman on the Bridge […]
Laila Lalami’s Fourth Novel, The Other Americans, Is a Family Saga, a Murder Mystery, and a Love Story
Laila Lalami’s new novel is forthcoming on 26 March 2019 from Pantheon, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The 320-page The Other Americans traces the death of a Moroccan immigrant in the US whose demise brings together a range of characters “deeply divide by race, religion, and class.” Here is a description from its publishers. […]
Thursday’s Children: 11 Contributors to Forthcoming Anthology Discuss Experimentation and the Nature of Creative Nonfiction
Thursday’s Children is a forthcoming anthology of personal essays. Co-edited by Adams Adeosun and Bello Damilare, it comes with an introduction by Kola Tubosun, and features thirteen writers, including its editors: Frances Ogamba, Timi Agboola Israel, Andanje Wobanda, Fareeda Abdulkareem, Atanda Obatolu, IfeOluwa Nihinlola, Munachim Amah, Kanyinsola Olorunnisola, Moyosore Orimoloye, Afope Ojo, and Ope Adedeji. Originally intended […]
Clickbait | Saddiq Dzukogi | Poetry
Inspired by the Western media coverage of the Dusit Hotel terror attack in Nairobi. At the Dusit restaurant in Nairobi men slumped over tables, crowded with laptops and smashed plates, dead from gunshot wounds. This is now where your hands pick what eyes consume. Our dead displayed like a commodity. A […]
Algerian Poet Azraj Omar Decries Arab Lack of Knowledge About Black African Literature
Algerian poet Azraj Omar has, in a piece titled “Arab World’s Unjustified Neglect of African Literature,” decried what he describes as the lack of “openness on African culture in the Maghreb.” Writing in The Arab Weekly, he calls out the lack of knowledge, writing that “Not even Arab scholars and so-called critics know much about the […]
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